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Message: <blockquote data-quote="touc" data-source="post: 8573556" data-attributes="member: 19270">Mona (Paizo head publisher) said about Patherfinder's generic setting in a 2018 online interview: "We’ve got lots of different flavors to choose from. It’s a full service campaign setting."While I couldn't locate the original quote about sales, I get the idea and it works (now). Rather than split the market like in TSR days, let's pretend there's a section of the world where dragons fight alongside humans and kender roam. While [insert everything generic D&D] may not be the norm, it could wander in. Thus, all our core material is compatible. That's a solid business model. It sells better. But, it goes back to my original argument about slapping a nostalgia tag on a product, whether it be Ravenloft or Dragonlance or Dark Sun (all huge sellers in their day, Dark Sun AD&D and 4E were best sellers for their niche), and calling with the same when so much has been altered that it's barely recognizable from the original product. Are you simply changing the formula for Coca-Cola and calling it Coke? Can you damage a brand by re-labeling it "Dragonlance" when it is clearly "new Coke?" And why bother? If the new generation of D&D players has never heard of Dragonlance except by grognard stories, why bother? Why not simply do whatever the hell you want and call it Dragonlance? The "next generation" will never know. They weren't born when so and so drew the maps of Xak Tsaroth and came up with storylines for Sturm Brightblade. And why bother? If only 13% (or whatever #) of enworld users have actually played Dragonlance, why even worry? The new generation, and most gamers, won't have a clue what makes Krynn special in the first place, right? Yep. Kender play so little of a role in the history of Krynn, but damn if I can figure out why 75% of the chatter here is about how people feel on them despite UA mechanics of pulling crowbars out of pouches. No one is speaking of the morality of Knights of the Lily, or how the Khal-Thax dwarves kept minotaur slaves, or the racist Istarians pushing every non-human race onto reservations...and so on.</blockquote>

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